Service Disruption or Destruction: Which is Worse?

Outcomes in security tend to be about data loss; stolen pharmaceutical formulas, jet fighter blueprints, patient records, credit card numbers etc. All of these come with a great cost to the victim and make for sexy headlines. But far too little is dissected and analyzed about service disruptions...

Symantec Warns of New Malware Targeting SQL Databases

Symantec is warning of a new bit of malware that appears to be modifying corporate databases, particularly in the Middle East, though its showing up elsewhere in the world too. W32.Narilam, first discovered Nov. 15, follows a similar pattern of other worms by copying itself onto infected machines...

Mozilla: Heap memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2012-86)

Buffer overflow in the nsCharTraits::length function in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap memory...

Cyber attack on Iran's Internet system Disrupts Iran Internet

IRAN state official has said that Cyber attackers have targeted Iranian infrastructure and communications companies, disrupting the Internet across the country. "Yesterday we had a heavy attack against the country's infrastructure and communications companies which has forced us to limit the...

Sandia Lab's MegaDroid Project Builds Out Massive Android Test Platform

It might sound like a security researcher’s worst nightmare to string together 300,000 virtual instances of the Android OS, but for scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, it’s just another day. The Department of Energy-sponsored national security-focused laboratory released the MegaDroid...

SAP NetWeaver SDM - denial of service

Application: SAP NetWeaver SDM Versions Affected: SAP NetWeaver SDM Vendor URL: http://www.sap.com Bugs: DoS Exploits: YES Reported: 10.02.2012 Vendor response: 11.02.2012 Date of Public Advisory: 10.12.2012 Reference: SAP Security Note 1724516 Authors: Alexander Polyakov ERPScan Description SAP...

Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks : Are we prepared ?

An electromagnetic pulse EMP attack is a threat few Americans are familiar with, yet one which could easily destroy their lives. What would you do if your electricity suddenly went out and didn't come back on for months or even years? How long would you last with the food in your pantry, the...

Design/Logic Flaw

The deleteinstallfiles function in control/ContentController.php in SilverStripe 2.3.x before 2.3.7 does not require ADMIN permissions, which allows remote attackers to delete index.php and "disrupt modrewrite-less URL routing."...

Some Signs Point to Shamoon as Malware in Aramco Attack

While researchers continue to dig into the Shamoon malware, looking for its origins and a complete understanding of its capabilities, a group calling itself the Cutting Sword of Justice is claiming responsibility for an attack on the massive Saudi oil company Aramco, which some experts believe...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security fixes : - The maximum file offset handling for ext4 file systems could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-2695, Important - IPv6 fragment identification value...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2011:1386 centos5 x86_64

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Twitter Denies Hacktivists Behind Severe Outage

Twitter officials say it was a “cascading bug” and not the handiwork of hacktivists that brought down the microblogging site today in two separate outages. “This wasn’t due to a hack or our new office or Euro 2012 or GIF avatars, as some have speculated today,” Mazen Rawashdeh, the company’s vice...

OpenJDK: CRL and certificate extensions handling improvements (Security, 7143872)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 update 4 and earlier, 6 update 32 and earlier, 5 update 35 and earlier, and 1.4.237 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Security...

Microsoft: Conficker Attacks Rebound

Old pieces of malware–especially successful ones–don’t really die. They typically will just sort of fade into the background as newer attacks come to the fore and grab the headlines. Such is the case for one of the more notorious headline-grabbing pieces of malware of all time: Conficker. Not onl...

BBC Persian TV hacked by Iranian government

BBC Persian TV hacked by Iranian government According to BBC News, today Iran hacked BBC Persian TV . This is not the first time the Iranian government has tampered with the BBC's Persian service, Zdnet Report. The Reason behind this attack is part of a broader attempt by the government to disrup...

DDOS attack on LIME's Internet system

DDOS attack on LIME's Internet system LIME says the majority of the customers experiencing degradation in their broadband services over the past few days are now back online and connecting at normal speeds. LIME says the type of attack is known in technology circles as a distributed denial of...

MySQL < 5.0.23 / 5.1.12 Denial of Service

The version of MySQL installed on the remote host is older than 5.0.23 or 5.1.12. As such, it reportedly is affected by an off-by-one buffer overflow. A local attacker could use this flaw to crash the service. Note that this vulnerability is disputed as the attacker needs extensive permissions to...

Code injection

One Click Orgs before 1.2.3 does not require unique e-mail addresses for user accounts, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service login disruption or spoof votes or comments by selecting a conflicting e-mail address...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2011:1386)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2011:1386-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...